Everyone is invited to the next PPS Happy Hour: The Social Life. WHEN & WHAT TIME: Thursday, January 11, 6pm SMALL URBAN SPACE: The Edge Bar (95 E 3rd Street between 1 and 2 Avenues), New York City SOCIABILITY: Drinks and Games–billiards and darts! We hope to see you there!Read Post

In the 15 months since it opened, San Francisco’s Octavia Boulevard has been hailed as a model for other cities. It has been honored at the local and national level, including an award last month from the American Planning Association. But here’s the real measure of success: The thoroughfare that replaced the elevated Central Freeway [...]Read Post

PPS staff members Fred Kent, Cynthia Nikitin and Ethan Kent traveled to Dubai to train a group of the city’s leading real estate developers in Placemaking. The largest city in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has experienced explosive growth in recent years, emerging as the region’s financial and cultural capital. Ethan explores the transportation situation [...]Read Post

Congratulations to the San Jose/Guerrero Coalition to Save Our Streets, co-recipient of the 2006 Grand Award, given by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in San Francisco. The Coalition of neighborhood activists successfully transformed a dangerous 6-lane arterial into a traffic-calmed street with wide medians, safe pedestrian crossings, and bike lanes. PPS worked with the Coalition to [...]Read Post

Efforts are underway to refurbish, rethink and rejuvenate Denver’s aging Civic Center park, boosting its profile and transforming it into a more desirable destination by improving accessibility and security and giving residents and tourists more reasons to visit. Though the plan has been endorsed by most parties, it has also generated emotional debate by preservationists, [...]Read Post

Inspired by the example of Columbia University in New York, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and other urban colleges that are improving campuses and “their gritty surroundings,” the University of Houston (UH) is planning a similar smart-growth overhaul of its 550-acre main campus, whose 62 parking [...]Read Post

Unlike many other colleges that have grown up around a town, the University of Connecticut is located near a town that is not much more than handfull of business in a strip mall. To make the school more appealing to students who are looking for off-campus options for shopping, dining and entertainment, UConn is planning [...]Read Post

At Brooklyn Bounty’s forum “Farms, Food and Healthy Communities,” supporters of farmers’ markets in low-income neighborhoods of Brooklyn met to discuss the challenges they face in providing access to fresh, healthy foods, building relationships between farmers and consumers, and creating farmers’ markets that function as community meeting places. The forum was part of a year-long [...]Read Post

Chicago DOT announced that this spring, traffic officers will pose as pedestrians, as part of an effort to crack down on drivers who endanger pedestrians. Also as a part of Mayor Daley’s Safe Streets for Chicago plan, the city will be installing various safety measures, such as bulb-outs, elevated crosswalks, and pedestrian refuges in hazardous [...]Read Post